New Media and Technology

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I found a very interesting article “SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHANGING COMMUNICATION PATTERNS” by Dr. Kiran Bala through the Appalachian Library online. This article uses information based on new media’s impact on our entire world, but mostly focusing on India. It also discuss the U.S.A and the UK. Our world is drastically changing and at a rapid pace. In return we as a whole are struggling with interpersonal communication and are consumed with internet communication.

This section of the article really stuck out to me because we really are consumers of the virtual word who unable to communicate face to face and are raising future generations to be media obsessed. It states “But due to over obsession of update in virtual world is leading to ‘not communication’ in real world. Most of the time netizens are so much engrossed in their virtual communication they hardly find time to talk to those near and dear one who are present in their physical surroundings. In the world of over communication we are moving away from the real world and living a virtual world of fake identities and intimacies. Those who are not really using them due to lack of knowledge, access or disinterest find themselves alienated.”

Every area of life is changing because of new media and new technology - politics, education, communication, relationships, consumerism, and every day life. This article brings a lot of information to light and calls out what kind of world, our world is becoming.